Blake Swerdloff, Tyler Helms

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CreditAllan Zepeda

Oct. 15, 2017

Blake Evan Swerdloff and Tyler James Helms were married Oct. 14 in Water Mill, N.Y. Mr. Swerdloff’s brother Craig S. Swerdloff, who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated at the Parrish Art Museum.

Mr. Swerdloff (left), 41, is an owner and an executive producer at BSTV Entertainment, a television production company in Montclair, N.J. He graduated from the University of Arizona.

He is a son of Bonnie Dancyger Swerdloff and David A. Swerdloff of Rye Brook, N.Y. Mr. Swerdloff’s parents, who are retired, owned the Leesam Kitchen and Bath Center, a design company and fixture showroom that was in New York.

Mr. Helms, 36, is an executive vice president and the group accounts director at Deutsch, an advertising agency in New York. He graduated from the University of Georgia.

He is the son of Karen C. Hill of Brazelton, Ga., and James O. Helms III of Decatur, Ga. Mr. Helms’s mother retired as the vice president of the construction and development company in Brazelton of her husband, Stephen K. Hill. The groom’s father is the chief financial officer of the Atlanta Teacher’s Federal Credit Union, which is in Decatur. The groom is also the stepson of Robin Ragan Helms.

The couple originally met in 2013, through the dating website OkCupid, had a few dates and then Mr. Helms didn’t return a call from Mr. Swerdloff. In 2015, however, they both walked into a burger joint at the same time, both intending to have dinner alone. Mr. Swerdloff asked Mr. Helms why he’d never called back, and Mr. Helms asked Mr. Swerdloff if they could have their dinner together.